The Crew Dragon capsule appointment with the station less than 16 hours after the astronauts were launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, also marked one of Elon Musk SpaceX’s fastest flights to the ISS from disembarkation to the dock, a NASA show commentators said.
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The fully automated connection took place at approximately 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT) while the Crew Dragon capsule called Freedom and the space station flew about 260 miles (420 km) over the central Pacific Ocean, according to NASA. The Freedom crew consists of three American NASA astronauts – flight commander Kjell Lindgren, 49, mission pilot Bob Hines, 47, and mission specialist Jessica Watkins, 33 – as well as 45-year-old Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti , of the European Space Agency (ESA). . (Report by Joe Skipper on Cape Canaveral, Florida, Author and Additional Report by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Edited by Sandra Maler, Clarence Fernandez, John Stonestreet and Lincoln Feast.)
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The Crew Dragon capsule meeting with the station less than 16 hours after launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, marked one of Elon Musk SpaceX’s fastest flights to ISS, from landing to landing. said NASA broadcast commentators. The fully automated connection took place at approximately 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT) while the Crew Dragon capsule, named Freedom, and the space station flew about 420 kilometers over the central Pacific Ocean, according to NASA. The Freedom crew consists of three American NASA astronauts – Flight Commander Kjell Lindgren, 49. Mission pilot Bob Hines, 47; and mission expert Jessica Watkins, 33 – as well as 45-year-old Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA). After docking earlier than scheduled, the crew began a two-hour process of standard leak and pressure controls in the passage between the capsule and the ISS, preparing for the opening of the station hatch. The new arrivals were to be welcomed on board by the seven existing ISS passengers, the four-member team that will replace – three Americans and a German ESA crew member who will finish their mission in early May – and three Russian cosmonauts. The last four astronauts, called Crew 4, are the fourth full ISS crew to be launched by NASA in a SpaceX vehicle since the California-based rocket company began flying US astronauts in 2020. SpaceX, founded in 2002 by Musk, the billionaire CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc., which on Monday struck a deal to buy Twitter social media platform, has now launched seven human flights into space in the past two years. That includes a team of four organized by the Houston-based Axiom Space Company, which collapsed on Monday after a two-week stay at the ISS, closing the first all-private astronaut mission to orbit the lab. The Crew 4 was launched just before dawn Wednesday just 39 hours after the Axiom team parachuted across the Atlantic off the coast of Florida in a separate Crew Dragon capsule. The short time between the Axiom launch and the Crew 4 launch clearly demonstrated a rapid recovery capability forged by NASA and SpaceX, at least when the weather permits, built around a fleet of reusable rockets and crew capsules. The lower stage of the Falcon 9 rocket from the launch of Crew 4 flew back to Earth for a safe return landing a few minutes after takeoff on Wednesday, marking the fourth successful flight and recovery of the same SpaceX booster. Crew Dragon’s Freedom capsule made its maiden flight. Crew 4 was under the command of Lindgren, a board-certified emergency medicine physician and flight surgeon who made his second voyage to the ISS, where he spent 141 days in orbit and took two spacewalks in 2015. The pilot assigned to the mission was Hines, a pioneer astronaut and U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who has flown more than 3,500 flight hours on 50 aircraft and completed 76 combat missions. Watkins, a geologist who earned her doctorate studying large landslides on Mars and Earth, also made her space debut and was to become the first African-American to take part in a long-term mission to the ISS. They were joined by Cristoforetti, an ESA astronaut and Italian Air Force jet pilot who made her second flight to the space station to take over the ISS operations during the group’s six-year term, becoming the first woman to fly. Europe in this role. The ISS, the largest man-made spacecraft the size of an American football field from end to end, has been continuously occupied since November 2000 by an international consortium of five US-led space agencies from 15 countries. -Russian. An international crew of at least seven people usually lives and works on the platform while traveling at 8 km per second, circling the Earth about once every 90 minutes. The station’s microgravity environment provides scientists with a unique laboratory to conduct experiments on everything from fluid mechanics and combustion to cell growth and aging. The Morning and Afternoon Newsletters are compiled by Globe editors, giving you a brief overview of the day’s most important headlines. Register today.
